Almost 70% of senior IT decision makers at financial
institutions said code written in-house is more likely tocontain bugsthan those created by
third parties, according to a study from Quest
Software.
The survey also revealed that code written by outsourcersing
suppliers was seen as more likely to contain bugs by 29% of
respondents and the remaining 4% said original packaged software
was more likely to.
Databases and
CRM applications are seen as requiring the most code by 62% of
respondents which makes them the most vulnerable to bugs. The
recent increase in the use of instant messaging tools in the
financial industry led to 13% of IT managers to view this
application as the most code intensive.
"The results reflect wider issues with how to control the
quality of in-house code and whether this is one of the functions
that financial organisations should look to outsource," comments
Graeme Nash, UK compliance programme manager at Quest Software.
"However, we are increasingly seeing the adoption of easy-to-use
application development tools that help improve the customisation
of packaged software without running the risks of introducing
software bugs."